[CLUE-Tech] Serial terminal to embedded Linux System

[Jed S. Baer]

On Mon, 29 Sep 2003 19:00:19 -0700 (PDT)
Art Reisman <astormchaser2002 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Just got a nice embedded system to load the Arbitrator
> on, and the first thing I need to do is to boot it
> with the serial terminal attached. (before I can get
> into real trouble) Well I don't have any serial
> terminals hanging around is there a way to emulate
> this thing with a PC, or a place I can run out and buy
> one that will do the trick.

If you have a null-modem serial cable, you can run it from another PC's
serial port, and use minicom as your terminal emulator to "talk" via that
port.

jed
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